Viral Hepatitis Surveillance – United States, 2010

Description:

As part of CDC’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS), viral hepatitis case-reports are received electronically from state health departments via CDC’s National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS), a computerized public health surveillance system that provides CDC with data regarding cases of nationally notifiable diseases on a weekly basis. Although surveillance infrastructure is in place for reporting of acute infection, reports of chronic hepatitis B and C, which account for the greatest burden of disease, are not submitted by most states. As noted in the 2010 report from the Institute of Medicine, surveillance capacity to monitor both acute and chronic viral hepatitis is limited at the state and local levels, resulting in incomplete and variable data.

Toolkit:

Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Epidemiology, Immunization, Infectious Diseases

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

CDC

Submitted:

07/27/2012

Modified:

08/16/2013
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